Top 5 Plugin To Setup CDN With WordPress { Speed Up WordPress}

Before giving you the list of the plugin to integrate CDN with WordPress, I would like to give you an introductory information about what CDN is and why it is used.

Every website owner wants to keep his/her website up to speed, but what if after all the efforts, the speed is still not up to the mark? What if suddenly unexpected traffic arrives your website and your site went down. That will be one of the nightmares for a website. If this situation matches yours, maybe it is the time to move to Content Delivery Network (CDN).

What’s a CDN?

Content Delivery Network, which is better known as CDN, is a collection of servers, which are distributed evenly all around the globe. This cluster of servers caches the static content of your website in the data center across the globe.

A CDN first, improves your page load time. In addition to that, it helps you manage the unexpected increase in your website traffic. Whenever a situation occurs like this, it transfers the load from your server to the server of your website visitors’ locality. This results in significant increase in the efficiency of your server.

What should you look for a CDN plugin?

There are few things you should check before selecting and purchasing a CDN plugin, those are,

Custom support for SSL.

Supports HTTP/2.

A number of server locations.

Real-time analytics.

Real-time Content purging.

Let’s see what options you have in selecting CDN plugins for WordPress.

There are so many CDN plugins to choose from. Here I have narrowed down the list to 5 CDN plugins that are currently leading them all. Let’s check out the list.

1. KeyCDN

The Key CDN plugin enables you to boost your website content with a pull or push zone which delivers your content faster than ever to any devices in any location. Its strategically positioned servers do the job for you.

Features:

HTTP/2 compatible

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

Enables you to use your own CNAMEs

Secured URL and Custom SSL.

Incredible pull features such as Origin shield, Custom robots.txt, Strip cookies, and many other.

Awesome Push features like FTP subusers, Enabled listing and indexing of directory, rsync enabled synchronization and many other push features.

Network.

It has 25 points of presence (POPs) spread all over the world in America, HongKong, Brazil, Canada and more.

They are planning to add 7 more POPs to the grid soon.

Free trial

They provide 25 GB of website traffic in 30 days of free trial with 25 locations and 5 zones.

One demerit for CloudFlare is that, if you want to opt for SSL customization you have to take the business pack which is available at a very high price.

Network:

It has one of the best network, offering server location in over 77 places which is best in the entire market.

It is the only CDN service provider which is available in Africa.

Free Trial.

It offers the best free plan, which enables your website to increase its speed, performance and security protection.

Pricing.

The CloudFlare plan starts from $20/website and after that, it follows it with an incredible plan of just $5/month. This makes CloudFlare a very sustainable CDN provider. Unlike other CDN providers, it does not charge you with cost in accordance with the bandwidth, which further benefits you from the complication at the end of the month due to high bills and keeps you on your budget.

4. Amazon AWS

On the contrary, there are two products in Amazon AWS, Amazon S3, and Amazon CloudFront.

Features

Custom SSL, geo targeting

Includes PCI-DSS compliant.

Live streaming support.

One of the best security among all CDNs.

Network.

It consists of 38 location including America, Asia, and Europe.

No location in Africa yet.

Free trials

It is available in the free version on trial basis with up to 50GB out and 2,00,000 HTTP and HTTPS requests.

Pricing

Amazon AWS is awfully complexed price tagged. However, it is worth noting that its pricing decides in three criteria, Data transfer out to the internet, Data transfer in Origin and HTTP and HTTPS request per 10,000.

Pricing.

So, these are the five best plugins to integrate CDN with WordPress. Choose wisely and increase your page visits.

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Author Bio:

Sarah Clarke is a WordPress Developer by profession and writer by hobby. She works for WordSuccor Ltd.- WordPress Plugin Development Company based in USA. She is a passionate, creative and technical writer and always lookout for learning something new. Get in touch with her if you are about to hire an experienced WordPress developer for your Custom WordPress Website projects. You can also follow heron Twitter.

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WordPress is one of the most popular blogging and Content Management System that powers more than 25% of the websites today. CDN is important with WordPress websites.Thank you for providing list of best CDN plugins.